name	3:10 to Yuma
director	James Mangold
Producer	Cathy Konrad
writer	Halsted WellesMichael BrandtDerek Haas
based on
starring	Russell CroweChristian BaleLogan LermanPeter FondaBen Foster
music	Marco Beltrami
cinematography	Phedon Papamichael
editing	Michael McCusker
studio	Relativity Media
distributor	Lionsgate
released
runtime	122 minutes
country
language	English
budget	$55 million
gross	$70,016,220 }}

''3:10 to Yuma'' is the 2007 remake of the 1957 film of the same name, making it the second adaptation of Elmore Leonard's short story ''Three-Ten to Yuma''. It is directed by James Mangold and produced by Cathy Konrad, and stars Academy Award winners Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in the lead roles. Filming took place in various locations in New Mexico. ''3:10 to Yuma'' opened September 7, 2007, in the United States.

Plot

In the late 19th century, Dan Evans (Christian Bale), an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran, although sitting awake and armed to prevent it, has his barn set ablaze by two men working for Glen Hollander, to whom Evans owes money. The next morning, as Evans and his two sons drive their herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) and his gang using Evans' cattle as a road blockade to ambush an armored stagecoach. As he loots the stage, Wade discovers Evans and his two sons watching from the hills. Acknowledging that they pose no threat, Wade takes their horses telling Evans that he will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee.

Wade travels with his gang to the town of Bisbee, Arizona to enjoy a celebratory drink at the local saloon. Meanwhile, the railroad guards find Evans and his sons with Byron McElroy (Peter Fonda), a Pinkerton agent and lone survivor of the ambush. Evans reveals Bisbee as Wade's likely destination, where the guards immediately return, joined by Evans and McElroy. While Doc Potter (Alan Tudyk), the local medic/veterinarian, treats McElroy, Evans tries negotiating with Hollander, who reveals his intentions to sell the land to the railroad rather than grant water rights to Evans. Enraged at the loss of his livelihood, Evans tries confronting Hollander in the nearby saloon where he finds Wade, whom he distracts long enough for the railroad guards to ambush and arrest him.

The coach's owner, Grayson Butterfield (Dallas Roberts), enlists McElroy, Potter, Tucker (Kevin Durand), one of Hollander's guards, and Evans, who agrees for a $200 fee to deliver Wade for arrest. From Evans' ranch, McElroy arranges a decoy wagon to distract Wade's gang, now led by Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), while the real convoy charts a course for Contention, where Wade will be put on the 3:10 P.M. train to Yuma Territorial Prison. As the group prepares to ride out, Evans' older son William (Logan Lerman) demands to accompany them. Evans flatly refuses.

During the journey, Wade kills Tucker during his sleep with a fork stolen from Evans' house, and later McElroy (the former for claiming his horse and the latter for insulting his mother) but is stopped from escaping by the surprise arrival of William, who had followed the group all the way from the ranch. While taking a shortcut through a canyon, the group is attacked by Apache warriors. Evans is wounded but Wade saves him, arms himself, and kills the attackers. Following the shootout, Wade escapes to a Chinese laborer construction camp blasting a tunnel through the mountain range, where the foreman captures Wade for having killed his brother. His assistant, Zeke (Luke Wilson), tortures Wade with electric shocks. Evans, William, Potter, and Butterfield appear and after unsuccessful attempts at negotiation, Potter leads an attack on the foremen and his miners, freeing Wade. As they flee on their horses, Potter is shot and killed, while Wade and Evans destroy the tunnel behind them with dynamite. The group arrives in Contention several hours before the train's scheduled arrival and check into the hotel, where they are soon joined by several local marshals hired by Butterfield.

Prince ambushes and interrogates the survivor of the decoy wagon, learning that Wade is being delivered to Contention and will board a train to Yuma; he then leaves the wagon to burn with the survivor trapped in it. Upon arriving in Contention and discovering the heavy guard around Wade, Prince offers every townsperson a $200 bounty for every guard they kill. The marshals, unwilling to fight against such steep odds, surrender to Prince, who kills them anyway. Butterfield refuses to complete the mission, offering Evans the $200 salary even if Wade goes free. Evans refuses, noting that was the amount the government paid him for the loss of his leg. Instead he asks Butterfield to escort his son back to his ranch and to pay his wife $1,000 and a guarantee of water rights from Hollander in exchange for Evans delivering Wade to the train.

After Butterfield agrees, Evans escorts Wade out of the hotel and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the townspeople before taking refuge inside a storeroom. Wade, tired of running, nearly strangles Evans; he relents when Evans reveals that the reason he has a wooden leg (a subject Wade brought up throughout the journey) is that his real leg was lost when Evans was shot by fellow soldiers while in retreat from battle, a story that would shame his sons, and that delivering Wade to Yuma would serve as an accomplishment his sons would admire. Wade relents and agrees to board the train. The two return to the streets, dodging bullets before barricading themselves in the station to wait for the train (which is running late), where Wade reveals that he's been to Yuma twice and escaped both times.

Wade's gang set up positions around the station as the train approaches. William, observing the events, stampedes a herd of cattle (echoing a similar act performed by Wade earlier in the film) that provides cover for Evans to push Wade onto the train. As Wade boards, he congratulates Evans. At that moment, Prince steps up and shoots Evans four times, despite Wade's shouted order to stop. Wade steps off the train and catches the gun belt Prince tosses him. After a tense moment of silence, Wade abruptly executes Prince and the rest of his gang. William appears and draws his gun on Wade but finds he can't kill him, instead turning to his dying father. Wade boards the train politely and surrenders his weapon. Evans eventually dies as Wade leaves in the train. As the train pulls away, he whistles for his horse, who perks up his ears and immediately canters after the running train into the distance.

Cast

Russell Crowe as Ben Wade, a ruthless leader of a band of outlaws.

Christian Bale as Dan Evans, a one legged veteran turned rancher.

Logan Lerman as William Evans, Dan's eldest son who dreams of being a cowboy,

Ben Foster as Charlie Prince, Ben's right-hand man who is undyingly loyal to Ben.

Peter Fonda as Byron McElroy, an elderly Pinkerton agent hired by the Railroad company to hunt Wade.

Dallas Roberts as Grayson Butterfield, an agent from the Railroad company.

Alan Tudyk as Doc Potter.

Lennie Loftin as Glen Hollander.

Gretchen Mol as Alice Evans.

Vinessa Shaw as Emmy.

Kevin Durand as Tucker.

Luce Rains as Marshal Weathers.

Luke Wilson as Zeke.

Marcus Sylvester as Slick.

Carmilla Blakney as Rebbi.

Production

In June 2003, Columbia Pictures announced a negotiation with Mangold to helm a remake of the 1957 Western film ''3:10 to Yuma'', based on a script written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas. After being apart from the project for several years, Mangold resumed his role as director in February 2006. Production was slated to begin in summer 2006. In the same month, Tom Cruise expressed an interest in starring as the villain in the film. Eric Bana also briefly sought a role in the film.

In summer 2006, Columbia placed the film on turnaround, and the project was acquired by Relativity Media. Crowe and Bale were cast as the main characters, and Relativity began seeking a distributor for the film. By September, Lions Gate Entertainment signed on to distribute the film. Later in the month, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, and Vinessa Shaw were cast. Filming was slated to begin on October 23, 2006 in New Mexico. On the first day of filming, a rider and his horse were seriously injured in a scene when the horse ran directly into a camera-carrying vehicle instead of veering off as planned. The rider was hospitalized, and the horse had to be euthanized on the set. The animal's death prompted an investigation from the American Humane Association. By November, the AHA concluded its investigation, finding that the horse did not respond accordingly due to having received a dual training approach and the rider not being familiar with the mount. The organization recommended no charges against the producers. Principal photography took place in and around Santa Fe, Abiquiú, and Galisteo. The Bonanza Creek Ranch represented the film's town of Bisbee as a "kinder, gentler frontier town" while Galisteo was set up to be Contention (now a ghost town), a "much rougher, bawdier, kind of sin city". Another location was the scenic Diablo Canyon, and another was the Gilman Tunnels () along New Mexico State Road 485. Filming concluded on January 20, 2007.

After filming concluded, the owners of the Cerro Pelon Ranch petitioned to keep a $2 million expansion to the movie set on their property, which was supposed to be dismantled within 90 days. The set of ''3:10 to Yuma'' made up 75% of the overall sets on the ranch. In April 2007, the request was met by the county's development review committee to keep the expansion, which would potentially generate revenue in the future.

Release

''3:10 to Yuma'' was originally slated for an October 5, 2007 release, but Lionsgate moved the film's release a month earlier to September 7, 2007 to beat competing Western films ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'' and ''No Country for Old Men''. As a result of the move, the studio was not able to use the Toronto Film Festival as a platform for the film's release, but it was released before a cluster of films similarly vying for awards. According to Lionsgate president Tom Ortenberg, "In what is shaping up to be a very impressive and crowded field of upscale commercial motion pictures this fall, we wanted to be one of the first ones out, so that everything else will be measured against us." The earlier theatrical run positioned it for a prominent high-definition Blu-ray Disc and DVD release in the first week of January, during awards seasons. Lionsgate similarly planned this strategy for ''Crash'' (2004), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year.

In Germany, the film was released by Columbia Pictures, which had produced the 1957 original.

Reception

Box office

''3:10 to Yuma'' debuted in the United States and Canada on September 7, 2007 in 2,652 theaters. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $14,035,033 and ranked #1 at the U.S. and Canadian box office. ''3:10 to Yuma'' grossed an estimated $53,606,916 in the United States and $16,409,304 in other territories for a worldwide total of $70,016,220.

Critical reaction

The film received very positive reviews from critics. According to the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 89% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 192 reviews. On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 76 out of 100, based on 37 reviews.

Andrew Sarris of ''The New York Observer'' said "There is more greed-driven corruption in the remake than there was in the original" and that the film is less a remake "than a resurrection of both the film and its now unfashionable genre." Sarris said Fonda and Foster "are especially memorable" and said "the performances of Mr. Crowe and Mr. Bale alone are worth the price of admission." ''The New Yorker'' film critic David Denby wrote that the film "is faster, more cynical, and more brutal" than the 1957 film. Denby wrote that Fonda "gives an amazingly fierce performance" and that Crowe "gives a fascinating, self-amused performance", saying "Crowe is an acting genius." Denby said "this is by far [director James Mangold's] most sustained and evocative work." Denby wrote that one action scene looks fake, but "much of this Western is tense and intricately wrought." Ty Burr of ''The Boston Globe'' called the film "lean, almost absurdly satisfying." Burr wrote that Crowe and Bale "are among the best, most intuitively creative we have, and whatever transpires offscreen in Crowe’s case, onscreen they only serve their characters. Neither man showboats here, and it’s a thrill to watch them work." Burr said that the character of Ben Wade is "a snake and a snake charmer in one irresistible package" and said Foster as Charlie Prince is "mesmerizing." Burr said "Bale and Crowe never once misstep" and that Mangold "steers clear of ''Deadwood'' revisionism." Burr, however, wrote that the ending "makes little to no sense in a post-Clint Eastwood universe."

Bruce Westbrook of the ''Houston Chronicle'' gave the film 3½ stars and called it "the best Western since ''Unforgiven''", calling it "both cathartic and intelligent." He wrote that the film "draws clear inspiration from the lonely heroics of ''High Noon''" and said "While a wildly eventful action-adventure and outlaw shoot-'em-up, it's also a vibrant story of heroism, villainy and hard-earned redemption." Westbrook said that Crowe and Bale are "at the top of their game" and "Crowe is reliably charismatic as a man who's less craven and bloodthirsty than wise, resourceful and expedient." Shawn Levy of ''The Oregonian'' gave the film a "B+" and said the film is "grounded in something like the credible realism of a John Ford Western but which also can appease the thirsts for blood, wit and tension harbored by fans of Quentin Tarantino." Levy wrote "The original film spends much time on conversation between Wade and Evans and focuses more on Evans' wife, whereas the new film has more action sequences and is infused subtly with themes that echo vexing contemporary political and moral issues." Levy said "Christian Bale gives us another of his wounded, desperate, stubborn men" and "Russell Crowe fills a role originated by Glenn Ford with a big dose of the mocking charisma, cool discernment and casual cruelty of Robert Mitchum." Levy said the climax "sews up the narrative too quickly", but called the film "a fine and sturdy picture."

''Christian Science Monitor'' critic Peter Rainer gave the film a "B+" and wrote "what Alfred Hitchcock once said about thrillers also applies to Westerns: The stronger the bad guy, the better the film. By that measure, ''3:10 to Yuma'' is excellent." Comparing the film to the 1957 film, Rainer wrote that the film "is larger in scope than its predecessor, and significantly altered in its ending, but essentially it's the same old morality play." Rainer said the "drippy father-son stuff is the least successful aspect of the movie." Rainer also wrote "Bale acts as if he's still playing the POW survivalist from Werner Herzog's ''Rescue Dawn''" and said "his hyperrealistic performance is a drag next to Crowe's dapper prince of darkness." Rainer said Crowe's "underplaying here is in many ways as hammy as if he were overplaying, and that's just fine." Richard Schickel of ''TIME'' magazine said "when a movie is as entertaining as this one, you begin to think this formerly beloved genre is due for a revival." Schickel said the 1957 film "was, in my opinion, not as good as a lot of people thought" and said Crowe "never settles for predictability when he's on screen and never lets us settle into complacency as we watch him." Schickel wrote that director Mangold "never loses his crispness or his narrative efficiency." Schickel said the comparisons to ''Unforgiven'' "are not entirely apt", saying that "Mangold's offering lacks the blackness and absurdity" of that film. He wrote, "It is more in the vein of Anthony Mann's westerns of the 1950s — trim, efficiently paced, full of briskly stated conflicts that edge up to the dark side, but never fully embrace it."

Awards and nominations

The film received two Academy Award nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. Marco Beltrami was nominated for Best Original Score, and Paul Massey, David Giammarco, and Jim Steube were nominated for Best Sound Mixing. The film also received a nomination for Best Cast at the 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

References

External links

3:10 to Yuma at MoviePress

Production notes

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birth date	December 15, 1952
birth place	Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
years active	1986–present
occupation	Director
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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She is widely known for directing the stage musical, ''The Lion King'', for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design. She was the director of the Broadway musical ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'' but left in March 2011, following artistic differences with the producers.

Early life and education

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Bernstein), a political science teacher, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist, both of Jewish descent. Taymor's interest in theatre took root early in her life. At the age of seven, she was already drawing her sister into stagings of children's stories for her parents. By age nine, she was entranced by the Boston Children's Theatre and became involved with them. In high school, she became interested in international travel, and made trips to both Sri Lanka and India with the Experiment in International Living. Being the youngest member of theatre groups became common, as she joined Julie Portman's Theatre Workshop of Boston at the age of 15. Yearning for a more in-depth approach, Taymor went to Paris to study with L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. During her studies there, she became exposed to mime which helped in the development of her physical sensibilities.

Although in 1970 Taymor was enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio, she sought experience with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre and other companies and studied through correspondence. Hearing that director Herbert Blau would be moving to Oberlin, she returned there and auditioned successfully, becoming, once again, the youngest member of a troupe. In 1973, Taymor attended a summer program of the American Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle. The instructors were performers of Indonesian topeng masked dance-drama and wayang kulit shadow puppetry. This would prove to have a great effect on Taymor in later years. Taymor graduated from Oberlin College with a major in mythology and folklore and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1974.

Career

After college, Taymor used a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study pre-Bunraku puppetry on Awaji Island, Japan, to learn more about experimental theatre, puppetry and visually oriented theatre. Taymor's greatest acclaim as a director for the stage has come from the popular musical ''The Lion King'' (1997), an adaptation of the animated film. Taymor received two Tony Awards for her work on ''The Lion King'', one for Direction and one for Costume Design, making her the first woman to receive a Tony Award for directing a musical.

In 1991, Taymor won the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship ("genius" award) for her innovative work in theatre.

Taymor has also worked in film in recent years, directing ''Titus'' (1999) and ''Frida'' (2002). Both movies received positive reviews for their stylish filming; ''Frida'' was the more acclaimed of the two, garnering Oscar nominations in six categories and winning in two (Best Makeup and Best Original Score). Taymor and her husband Goldenthal were co-nominees in the Best Original Song category.

For the Metropolitan Opera 2005-06 season, Taymor directed a successful production of ''The Magic Flute''. It was revised for the 2006-07 season and, in addition to full-length performances, was adapted for a 100-minute version over the Holiday season to appeal to children. That version of the opera was the first of a series of NCM Fathom ''Live on the Big Screen'' presentations of MET operas downloaded via satellite to movie theaters across North America and parts of Europe for the 2006-07 season.

In June 2006, Taymor directed the opera ''Grendel'' for the Los Angeles Opera, starring Eric Owens, which was also presented as part of the Summer 2006 Lincoln Center Festival in New York City. Taymor's more recent work has been as director of the film ''Across the Universe'', a 1960s love story set to the music of The Beatles and starring Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood. The film opened in September 2007 and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy/Musical in 2008.

In November 2008, Taymor directed a film version of Shakespeare's ''The Tempest'', released in December 2010.

In April 2007, it was announced that Marvel Studios was preparing to make a musical adaptation of ''Spider-Man'' for Broadway. Taymor was selected to direct the show and write the book with Glen Berger. The production features music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge. The musical, ''Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark'', was scheduled to begin previews on November 28, 2010, at the Foxwoods Theatre, with the repeatedly-delayed official opening night finally held on June 14, 2011. On March 9, 2011, it was reported by ''The New York Times'' that Taymor would be leaving her role as director of "Spider-Man" after disputes with the show's producers, who wanted to drastically alter the existing storyline and general artistic direction.

In a March 14, 2011 piece by Roger Friedman, it was reported that Taymor will receive her original ''Spider-Man'' credits, with sources saying that ''Spider-Man'' producer Michael Cohl and Bono did bring in a script doctor, music supervisor and other new members for the creative team.. As of June 2, 2011, Laura Penn, the executive director of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, confirmed rumors of the ongoing dispute between Taymor and the show's producers about director’s fees that Taymor has not received from the production .

Taymor was the 2010 Commencement speaker for her alma mater, Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio.

Work

Stage

''The Tempest'' (1986, by Shakespeare, abridged) - Director, puppetry. at Classic Stage Company (NY).

'' Oedipus Rex'' (1992, by Igor Stravinsky) - Director, puppetry. at Sito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto (also taped for TV, released 1993 / released DVD)

''Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass'' (1996) – Director, co-bookwriter, co-scenic designer, co-costume designer, mask designer, puppet designer– Tony Award co-nomination for Best Scenic Design, Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical ''The Lion King'' (1997, new musical by Elton John) – Director, lyricist for the song ''Endless Night'', costume designer, co-mask designer, co-puppet designer– Tony Award winner for Best Direction of a Musical, Tony Award co-nomination for Best Original Score, Tony Award winner for Best Costume Design

''The Green Bird'' (2000, new musical by Goldenthal) – Director, mask designer, puppet designer

''The Magic Flute'' (2005, opera by Mozart) - Director. at Metropolitan Opera (NY), live broadcast for theatrical (HD). DVD selling at Operahouse only.

''Grendel'' (2007, new opera by Goldenthal) - Librettist, Director

''This Is It'' (2009, live concert show by Michael Jackson) - production consultant, designer

''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'' (2010, new musical adaptation of Spider-Man) – Director, co-author, mask designer

Filmography

''Fool's Fire'' (1992) (TV)

''Oedipus Rex'' (1993) (opera)

''Titus'' (1999)

''Frida'' (2002)

''Across the Universe'' (2007)

''The Tempest'' (2010)

References

External links

Interview with Julie Taymor - Subtitles to Cinema

Julie Taymor profile at PBS website

Video from "60 Minutes" segment on "Spiderman:Turn Off the Dark," Nov 28, 2010, including interviews with Taymor

''60 Minutes'' segment, Nov 28, 2010, text version

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Name	Phillip Lim
Nationality	United States
Label name	3.1 Phillip Lim

Phillip Lim (born 1973 in Thailand ) is a Cambodian-American fashion designer of Chinese ancestry. He was awarded the 2007 Council of Fashion Designers of America Emerging Talent in Womenswear award for his work as creative director of 3.1 Phillip Lim. He worked at the label Development from 2000 to 2004, and has been the head of 3.1 Phillip Lim which launched in the fall of 2005 to present.

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3.1 Philip Lim is Lim's fashion label. It is projected to have sales of 60 million USD in 2011.

Collections

For the line's fall 2006 collection, Lim aimed to "inject some 'street elegance'" into his designs. Laird Borrelli of ''Vogue'' praised his work as a "pretty-but-cool clothes" that "don't try too hard".

Lim's spring 2007 collection, His first runway show was praised as "lovely" by Nicole Phelps of ''Vogue'', who said Lim proved himself to be an "accomplished tailor". His clothes were romantic and predominantly white, with occasional navy and floral elements. Phelps noted Lim's "knack for combining the dressy and the casual", saying that "Lim knows how fashionable women want to dress".

The line's fall 2007 collection was inspired by socialite Edith Bouvier Beale and meant to embody what Lim called "pedigree minus prudence". In what Phelps described as Lim's "most ambitious collection by far", Lim showed prep-school plaids and debutante-inspired dresses.

For his Resort 2008 collection, Lim revisited his standby motifs.

His fall 2009 was inspired by the youthquake of the 60s in England. Lissie Trullie's band performed live on his runway.

In its fifth year the brand -known for its effortlessly chic and youthful elegance -has seen immense critical and commercial success with stores in L.A. New York, Seoul, Tokyo.

References

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